> On Apr 20, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Andrea Borgia <and...@borgia.bo.it> wrote: > > Il 17/04/21 19:47, John Ralls ha scritto: > > >> But if you sold only 50 shares Trading:XYZ would have a balance of -50 and >> Trading:EUR has a balance of €400. To find the capital gain you have to >> compute the basis of the remaining 50 shares and subtract it from the >> Trading:EUR balance. > > Yes, that's why I said "for closing 2020": I understood it was a special case > and I actually wrote to my future self a memo explaining why the year-end > closing is the way it is. > > For 2021, especially if a sale occurs, I'll try to record it properly. > > >> So rather than getting you in trouble with the tax authorities the >> consequences would be in the time spent on figuring out why your numbers and >> theirs are different. > > Why would that be the case? I have no way to calculate the tax amount from > within gnucash, I'm simply going to take what the bank debits and record it. > > > The one issue I have with the way the bank records costs (not taxes) is that > the fixed fee paid on purchase of a fund is lumped together with the > investment amount, so they have a slightly different share price from mine. > > I chose to record the expense the moment it is incurred, that is at purchase > time. > > I might as well follow their lead, if else to make my life easier still, but > this should be just a matter of preference, right?
If you're just keeping memorandum books then it's all preference, eh? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
